The Start
-- Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson was born into a professional
wrestling family in 1972.
-- An injury ended his college football career, so he entered the
ring with the Word Wrestling Federation.
-- As “The Rock,” he famously feuded with wrestler Steve Austin
and won the WWF Heavyweight title six times.
-- Johnson then parlayed his wrestling fame into a film career,
appearing in projects like 2001’s The Mummy Returns and
2010’s Tooth Fairy. His recent projects include Furious Seven
(2015), San Andreas (2015) and the HBO series Ballers (2015).